A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

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The Most Useful Tutorial and Reference, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples for Every Popular Linux Distribution Linux is today’s dominant Internet server platform. System administrators and Web developers need deep Linux fluency, including expert knowledge of shells and the command line. This is the only guide with everything you need to achieve that level of Linux mastery. Renowned Linux expert Mark Sobell has brought together comprehensive, insightful guidance on the tools sysadmins, developers, and power users need most, and has created an outstanding day-to-day reference. This title is 100 percent distribution and release agnostic. Packed with hundreds of high-quality, realistic examples, it presents Linux from the ground up: the clearest explanations and most useful information about everything from filesystems to shells, editors to utilities, and programming tools to regular expressions. Use a Mac? You’ll find coverage of the Mac OS X command line, including OS X-only tools and utilities other Linux/UNIX titles ignore. Sobell presents a new MySQL chapter. There’s even an expert introduction to Python–today’s most valuable tool for automating complex, time-consuming administration tasks.Table of Contents Chapter 1. Welcome to Linux and Mac OS XPart I: The Linux and Mac OS X Operating SystemsChapter 2. Getting StartedChapter 3. The UtilitiesChapter 4. The FilesystemChapter 5. The ShellPart II: The EditorsChapter 6. The vim EditorChapter 7. The emacs EditorPart III: The ShellsChapter 8. The Bourne Again Shell (bash)Chapter 9. The TC Shell (tcsh)Part IV: Programming ToolsChapter 10. Programming the Bourne Again Shell (bash)Chapter 11. The Perl Scripting LanguageChapter 12. The Python Programming LanguageChapter 13. The MySQL Database Management SystemChapter 14. The AWK Pattern Processing LanguageChapter 15. The sed EditorPart V: Secure Network UtilitiesChapter 16. The rsync Secure Copy UtilityChapter 17. The OpenSSH Secure Communication UtilitiesChapter Part VI: Command ReferenceChapter 18. Command ReferencePart VII: AppendixesAppendixe A. Regular ExpressionsAppendixe B. HelpAppendixe C. Keeping the System Up-to-DateAppendixe D. Mac OS X Notes